December 2025

Waterfox browser goes AI-free, targets the Firefox faithful 2025-12-19 at 00:38 By Liam Proven Even if Mozilla is going to add an AI kill switch, that may not be enough to reassure many. Waterfox, a popular fork of Firefox, is saying nay to AI. Considering how unpopular Mozilla’s plan to botify its browser has become, […]

Snowflake update caused a blizzard of failures worldwide 2025-12-18 at 23:23 By O’Ryan Johnson Customers in 10 of the company’s 23 regions had “operations fail or take an extended amount of time to complete.” Snowflake pushed an update this week that caused a “major outage” worldwide, leaving many users unable to query data, experiencing failures

Wealthy Silicon Valley suburb looks to crack down on billionaire tech titans’ compounds 2025-12-18 at 22:55 By Ariel Zilber City leaders are weighing new restrictions aimed squarely at Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Laurene Powell Jobs, Marissa Mayer and other billionaires. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original

Your car’s web browser may be on the road to cyber ruin 2025-12-18 at 22:21 By Thomas Claburn Study finds built-in browsers across gadgets often ship years out of date Web browsers for desktop and mobile devices tend to receive regular security updates, but that often isn’t the case for those that reside within game

Bitcoin trips at $90K despite CPI showing curbed US inflation: What gives? 2025-12-18 at 22:05 By Cointelegraph by Biraajmaan Tamuly Bitcoin briefly clinched $90,000 after the November Consumer Price Index report showed a drop in US inflation, but the essential components for an extended rally remain elusive. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News

Why the ‘great China Bitcoin mining crackdown’ fell short of early claims 2025-12-18 at 22:05 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi Data suggests that fears about Xinjiang-related Bitcoin mining have overstated the impact, with hashrate losses proving brief and driven partly by US power curtailments. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Embattled Instacart to pay $60M to settle claims it deceived members with free delivery offers 2025-12-18 at 21:57 By Reuters The shopping platform is under scrutiny over a recent study where individual shoppers simultaneously received different prices for the same items at the same stores. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News |

It’s your last day to claim up to $7,500 in AT&T data breach settlement 2025-12-18 at 21:18 By Ben Cost Time to make a “collect” call. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

Bitcoin Policy Institute reps sound alarm on de minimis tax exclusion 2025-12-18 at 21:18 By Cointelegraph by Vince Quill US lawmakers are only considering de minimis tax exemptions for dollar-pegged stablecoins, according to Bitcoin Policy advocate Conner Brown. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Why Bitcoin’s popular narratives don’t match the data: James Check on 2026 2025-12-18 at 21:18 By Cointelegraph by Marco Castrovilli In a recent Cointelegraph interview, James Check uses onchain data to challenge popular Bitcoin narratives and outline his thinking for 2026. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Intuit to use Circle’s stablecoin for financial platforms 2025-12-18 at 21:18 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright The company’s stablecoin infrastructure and USDC coin will be part of the deal, potentially to be embedded in Intuit’s financial platforms. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Crypto crooks co-opt stolen AWS creds to mine coins 2025-12-18 at 21:18 By Jessica Lyons ‘Within 10 minutes of gaining initial access, crypto miners were operational’ Your AWS account could be quietly running someone else’s cryptominer. Cryptocurrency thieves are using stolen Amazon account credentials to mine for coins at the expense of AWS customers, abusing

MEV trading returns to court in Pump.fun class-action lawsuit 2025-12-18 at 20:10 By Cointelegraph by Vince Quill The lawsuit against the memecoin launch platform Pump.fun, Solana Labs, the Solana Foundation and Jito was amended to include new evidence over MEV trading practices. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Mobile industry says energy targets are meaningless without common metrics 2025-12-18 at 20:10 By Dan Robinson NGMN warns fragmented standards leave operators guessing about power use The Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) alliance is calling for standardized ways to measure energy consumption, saying that the industry cannot deliver on its efficiency and sustainability goals without

Trump Media jumps aboard the speculative nuclear fusion bandwagon 2025-12-18 at 20:10 By Brandon Vigliarolo Ambitious timelines don’t bend the laws of physics Just when you thought 2025 couldn’t get any weirder, Trump Media and Technology Group – best known for Truth Social – is jumping into the still-nascent but heavily funded nuclear fusion industry

Kim’s crypto thieving reached a record $2B in 2025 2025-12-18 at 20:10 By Connor Jones ByBit attack doing some seriously heavy lifting North Korea’s yearly cryptocurrency thefts have accelerated, with Kim’s state-backed cybercriminals plundering just over $2 billion worth of tokens in 2025.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

China-Aligned Threat Group Uses Windows Group Policy to Deploy Espionage Malware 2025-12-18 at 20:09 By A previously undocumented China-aligned threat cluster dubbed LongNosedGoblin has been attributed to a series of cyber attacks targeting governmental entities in Southeast Asia and Japan. The end goal of these attacks is cyber espionage, Slovak cybersecurity company ESET said in

Sam Altman’s OpenAI in talks to raise money at $750B: report 2025-12-18 at 19:12 By Thomas Barrabi Sam Altman’s OpenAI has reportedly had talks with private investors about raising money at a eye-popping $750 billion valuation – a move that comes amid rumblings that the artificial giant is also considering going public. This article is

ETH nears $3K after cool CPI print but $553M Ether ETF outflow raises alarm 2025-12-18 at 19:12 By Cointelegraph by Marcel Pechman ETH rebounded toward $3,000 as stocks reacted positively to a cooler-than-anticipated CPI print, but this week’s $553 million spot ETHER ETF outflow could keep a cap on prices. This article is an excerpt

Aptos introduces post-quantum signatures before they’re urgently needed 2025-12-18 at 19:12 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi Aptos has proposed an optional post-quantum signature scheme, citing long-term risks that advances in quantum computing could pose to existing cryptography. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source